Agents Provocateurs Disrupt Washington State Protest
Cops don’t like it when citizens (now known as civilians) protest against their wanton murder.

So they send in the “anarchists,” who invariably turn out to be cops.

It works about the same in all authoritarian dictatorships.

Those Sales Numbers Were HORRIBLE, We're Going To Hell In A Handbasket!
More from the one, the only, Howard Davidowitz...

Art Cashin: Market Conspiracies Point To Secret Fed and ECB Actions
Art Cashin of UBS spoke on CNBC late yesterday about what he, and many traders on the floor, are thinking about treasury auctions and actions in the euro. Conspiracies abound.

Fitch Downgrades Greece, Endgame Imminent
With Greek spreads blowing in and out this weekend, the general sentiment is that endgame comes now.

Some kind of official request (and granting) of support has to come by the end of the weekend.

Stay glued to your computer, folks!

Ohio Judge: Arm Yourself The Economy Has Collapsed Deputies Laid Off
JEFFERSON -- In the ongoing financial crisis in Ashtabula County, the Sheriff's Department has been cut from 112 to 49 deputies. With deputies assigned to transport prisoners, serve warrants and other duties, only one patrol car is assigned to patrrol the entire county of 720 square miles.

General Election 2010: drivers 'could face motorway tolls' under Tories
Motorists could face tolls to use parts of the motorway network if the Tories win the election, David Cameron has indicated.

Looting Main Street
How the nation's biggest banks are ripping off American cities with the same predatory deals that brought down Greece

15 Reasons to Eat Organic Food


As democracy unravels at home, the west thuggishly exports it elsewhere
While the US and Britain slide towards oligarchy, the forced elections in Afghanistan and Iraq have brought no good

Iceland's new poor line up for food
"I don't tell my children where I get the food, I'm too ashamed," said Iris Aegisdottir, an Icelander who has been going to a food bank every week for a year to feed her three children.

The Global Economic Crisis: Riots, Rebellion and Revolution
Andrew Gavin Marshall's* extraordinary Three Part Series on the current global economic, political and social crisis is worthy of careful reading and study. His scholarly approach to understanding and biting critique of the global corporate empire serves as a reference for our everyday experience as the world spins into a chaotic but dynamic freedom that portends a clean break from the past and passage into a promising future.

Gold hits all-time highs in Euro and Sterling
The gold price hit a new all-time high in Euro and the British Pound yesterday as the debt crisis in Greece and concerns about a hung parliament in the UK weigh on the Euro and Pound, and demand for gold as an alternative currency continues to rise. The gold price surged to EUR 862oz yesterday, up 12% year-to-date and 30% over the past twelve months (11% and 24% in British Pounds), highlighting gold’s increasing use as a hedge not just against US dollar weakness, but sovereign risks more broadly.